STATEMENT OF METHODS EMPLOYED BY WINNERS OF BUTTER PRIZES. CLASS 4. CREAMERY TUB.

1 What number and breed of cows from 400 cows-mixed breeds. which this butter was made?

2 How much and what kinds of feed

were used per cow?

4 By what process or apparatus was the De Laval Separator.
cream obtained?

5 How long was the cream kept and in 24 hours. A mild sour cream. 18 hours Slightly acid. what condition when put in the

churn?

6 At what temperature was the cream? 60 degrees.

Kind of churn?

7 What length of time churning?

62 degrees.

Square factory churn.

Box churn.

30 minutes.

45 minutes.

Yes.

8 Do you wash and salt while in granu-Yes.
lar form?

9 What kind of salt and how much per Worcester. 34 oz.
pound?

10 What kind of butter color used?

11 What kind of worker used?

Wells, Richardson & Co.
Mason Power.

12 How many pounds of milk required 18 lbs.

to make one pound of butter?

U. S. Separator.

STATEMENT OF METHODS EMPLOYED BY WINNERS OF BUTTER PRIZES. CLASS B. CREAMERY PRINT.

THIRD PREMIUM.

Geo. A. Allen, W. Hartford.

6 At what temperature was the cream? 60 degrees. M. & S. box 60 degrees. Box.

Kind of churn used?

7 What length of time churning?

churn.

12 How many pounds of milk to make 23 lbs. One.

one pound of butter? One or more

ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

Moved by Mr. Curtis and seconded by Mr. Tinkham that the secretary be authorized to cast a ballot for the reelection of the entire board of old officers, which motion was voted unanimously, and the old officers were declared elected for the ensuing year.

By the President.-One year ago you elected me to this position; it was something I never expected; I had no idea of holding the office when I went to Brattleboro; I had no experience and I accepted the office feeling that I would have your hearty support and co-operation. We have run well one year. We are now in the midst of one of the most successful meetings we have ever held. The only thing that leads me to accept this office again is the thought that I may profit, perhaps, by the failures of the past year, and it will be my endeavor to serve you more faithfully for the year to come than I have in the year past.

It is one of the greatest honors that I have ever had given me that of being made president of this Association, and I can only say that I thank you for the same, from my heart. (Applause.)

By the Secretary.-I sincerely thank you for the continued confidence you have in me, and I hope during the coming year we can devise some new idea to make the next meeting of still greater merit than the present one-if that is possible. I thank you again for this honor, and promise to do the best I can for you. (Applause.)

Adjournment.

THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY TO THE VERMONT DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION.

Tuesday Evening Session.

Music for the evening was furnished by the Orpheus Club of Burlington.

President Adams.-Ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure of presenting to you this evening Mrs. Bessie H. Strong, of North Pomfret, Vice-President of the Woman's Auxiliary.

Mrs. Strong.-Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: In the name of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Vermont Dairymen's Association, I extend to each and every one a cordial welcome.

We are fortunate to-night in holding our meeting in this city, which is so closely identified with the dairy interests of Vermont. Here are located our State Agricultural College and Experiment Station; here are gathered each year for the sessions of our dairy school those who have chosen this particular line of work.

The Vermont Dairymen's Association, with its thirty years of history and achievement, needs no word of introduction to this audience, but a word in relation to its Auxiliary, under whose auspices we are met to-night, may not be amiss.

Seven years ago in this city this society was organized for the purpose of the discussion and consideration of dairying and other topics relating to our work. How much of mutual encouragement and helpfulness have been obtained from its meetings those of us who have been privileged to attend them can testify.

Much is being said just now about the wonderful progress made during the nineteenth century, which has now become a part of history, and especially is this apparent in the advance in dairy science, and in the position woman holds in the world to-day.

I have time only to touch upon the improvement in dairy appliances. A short time ago I was talking with an elderly man, who, not being connected with that line of work, had never heard of the separator. He was filled with amazement to learn that it was possible for the cream to be taken from the milk immediately. It does not seem so wonderful to us who are accustomed to it, and yet nearly all of us can remember when separators were comparatively unknown.

This new century, on whose threshold we are standing, will doubtless bring to us many farm and dairy improvements in the way of electrical plows, electrical threshers and electrical dairy apparatus. Even now experiments are being made in this direction.

Some one has said that woman is the discovery of the century. Certain it is that our grandmothers in their day would never have dreamed of such a gathering as this one to-night-an organization of women holding a public meeting, with a woman presiding, and half of the addresses given by

women.

During the past decade we have heard much about the 66 new woman," whatever that may mean. Let us hope that with the closing of the century she has passed into oblivion!

But we have, as the result of all this comment and criticism, a type of woman entirely unknown fifty years ago—a woman of broader culture, deeper sympathies and higher ideals, who has a place in the social world of the day.

Must this fact necessarily make her less feminine, less womanly? Rather, will not this growth make her a better home-maker and better fitted to train her children for a place in the home and in the world at large?

Remarks were then made by Mayor Roberts, in which he reminded us that the first farmer on record had to have an auxiliary for Adam, God made Eve.

The last on the program was an address, with stereopticon illustrations, on "The Home of the Jersey Cow and the Jersey Cow at Home," by President M. H. Buckham, of the Vermont University, which was much enjoyed by all.